An interesting post by Irani Sen
over at Green Diary questions whether or not tourists are ugly human beings. The blurb
starts by analyzing golf tourism with very big ugly numbers. Numbers like the ones found in a study of 19 golf courses
in the Philippines, where the water used to maintain the golf courses could have irrigated 1,500 small holdings or
supplied 330,000 Manila residents. More studies show that a large hotel in Egypt uses as much electricity as 3,600
families. The list goes on to state how much waste cruise ships create and trails in the Peruvian Andes and Nepal that
have been nicknamed Coca-Coca Trail and Toilet Paper Trail. Not sure where all the numbers came from, but it makes you
think for a moment. How can people change the way they see the world without harming it? While we could cut back on
golf courses is there anything that can be done to stop the excessive use of water by tourists?